jade-empire-2 posts

BioWare's first all orginal RPG was Jade Empire, a action-themed game with Asian influences. It was first release for the original Xbox in 2005 and later for the PC in 2007. While BioWare team members have talked about doing a sequel to Jade Empire some day there is now evidence that Jade Empire 2 was more than just a thought experiment.

The LinkedIn profile for game designer Rafael Brown, now working at id Software, lists Jade Empire 2 as a game he worked on but was unreleased. Again, BioWare has never officially announced plans for a Jade Empire 2 but it appears that there were at least some progress made on the sequel.

[Via Eurogamer]

Developer BioWare is working on all cylinders lately with Dragon Age: Origins about to be released, Mass Effect 2 due out in the first quarter of 2010 and Star Wars: The Old Republic coming sometime later. But could BioWare look back and do a sequel to their first all original game Jade Empire in the future?

The Asian-themed action-RPG was released for the PC in 2006, nearly two years after it debuted on the original Xbox console. In a new chat with Strategy Informer, BioWare's lead designer of Dragon Age: Origins Mike Laidlaw, is quoted as saying, "At this point, Jade Empire is a staff favorite and a lot of us love it, so we'd love to revisit it at some point." That doesn't sound like a "No" to us.